Imams to help police in bid to keep young Muslims away from gang culture

by David Leask
Scotsman
February 15, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1333/imams-to-help-police-in-bid-to-keep-young

Excerpt:

A new weapon will be unveiled this week in the war on teenage gangs: Muslim Imams.

Scotland on Sunday can reveal that several Islamic clerics will join police and youth workers in an innovative new scheme to wean young Muslims away from trouble.

The Imams – most Scottish-born – will take to the streets starting this week, targeting a dozen teenagers believed to be on the edge of the embryonic Asian gang culture on Glasgow's Southside.

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